Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS [ARTICLE]

BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS

Difficult to Buy Proper Feed Stuffs at Random. [National Crop Improvement Service.] There are not a dozen feed stores in the country that carry in stock all the ingredients of a first-class mixed feed at all times and at reasonable prices, and usually they do not carry feeds of the same high quality used by the mixers who work scientifically through a laboratory. This is human nature. Competition compels a dealer to sell the cheapest quality. The best quality of feed is seldom carried, because the average buyer will not pay the highest price. A good many experiment stations in a general way will advocate that a farmer mix all his own feed, but they are human like the rest of us and they Will use recognized brands in their own feeding operations rather than go to the trouble and take the time to follow their own advice. | There are a good many herds at experiment stations which are kept as sort of a clinic for professors to practice theories upon. The poor brutes are used a good deal as guinea pigs in hospital practice. On the other, hand, at the experiment stations are to be found many of the finest animals ever bred. * | The mixed feeds of the first grade can be fed alone or in connection with home-grown corn, oats or barley. To do this widens your ration, and it is correct to do so if it. will reduce your cost of feeding. Mixed feeds, therefore, are largely a matter of arithmetic. I You can usually get the result far lees money than by feeling more axpensive grains separately.